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R. E. UHL.

suPPoRTER.

APPLICATION FILED 1AN.24, 1920.

` Patented June 22, 1920.

j ZJ/y HEI/M @Hmong ROBERT EMIL UHL, 0F GREENFIELD, OHIO.

SUPIORTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 22, 1920.

Application led January 24, 1920. Serial No. 353,644.

'tion to provide a novel and improved device of this general character embodying a pocket in which is slidably arranged a looped portion of a tension cord wherein means are provided exerting the requisite ktension upon the cord.

Another object of the invention is to provide a novel and improved device of this general character wherein the looped portion of the tension cord is slidably disposed through a separating member arranged within the pocket and which member also operates 'to prevent the cord from unduly spreading or to assume a position wherein the looped portion of the cord will expand or separate laterally to an extent to be exposed' beyond the sides of the pocket.

The invention consists in the details of construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts of my improved supporter whereby certain important advantages are attained and the device rendered simpler, less expensive and otherwise more convenient and advantageous for use, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

The novel features of my invention will hereinafter be definitely claimed.

In orderthat my invention may be' the better understood, I will now proceed to dcscribe the same with reference to the yaccompanying drawings, wherein:

Figure l is a fragmentary view partly in elevation and,-partly in section illustrating a spring tension device constructed in accordance Vwith an embodiment'of my invention and with the parts in their normal positionsa Fig. 2 is a view similar to Fig. l, showing certain of the partsin a second positionI or wherein the tension cord is under strain; and

Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view taken thrcuglti the device as herein disclosed.

As disclosed inthe accompanying drawings, l denotes a portion of a shoulder strap as comprlsed in a suspender or other garment supporter and to which is connected a link 2. The link 2 is also connected'with a looped strap 3 or the like provided in a pocket. The lower portion of the pocket is provided with the transversely spaced openings or eyelets 4 through which is loosely directed the tension cord 5 of any ordinary or preferred construction. By this arrangement, the cord 5 forms within the looped strap or pocket 3 a loop a. This denotes a spreader, preferably formed with a wire strand and returned at its opposite ends to provide the eyes 7 through which the cord 5 n is loosely directed so that, in practice, the cord 5 may have longitudinal movement independent of the spreader 6.

The strands of the cord 5 will also pass through the eyes 2'a carried by the end portions of a member 6, said member being preferably formed of wire with its extremities returned to produce the eyes 7f. The member 6a serves as a bearing element while the spreader 6 serves to prevent the strands of the looped portion of the cord 5 from unduly separating and is of a length to prevent.l said looped portion being exposed exteriorly of the looped strap or pocket 3 beyond the opposite sides thereof.4 Sleeved upon the strands of the cord 5 within the pocket or looped strap 3 are the coil springs 8,`each ofsaid springs being interposed between the lower end of the looped strap or pocket 3 and an end portion of the spreader 6. Surrounding the end of the loop of the cord 5 is a coil spring 9, having its opposite end portions engaged with the end portions of the spreader 6.

When a pull is imposed upon the cord 5, the same will freely move through the eyes 7 of the spreader 6 and at the Sametime places the springs 8 and 9 under compression so that upon release or reduction of the .thought to be obvious that a supporter constructed in accordance with 'my invention is particularly well adapted for use by reason of the convenience and facility with which it may be assembled and operated, and it will also be obvious that my invention is susceptible of some change and lmodi-Y fication without departing from the principles and spirit thereof, and for thisV reason, I do' not wish to be understood as limiting myself to the precise arrangement and formation of the several parts herein shown in carrying out my invention in practice except as hereinafter claimed.

I claim I s l. A device of the character described comprising, in combination, a pocket, a flexible element returned on itself presenting two strands movable through the bottom of the pocket, a separating member within the pocket 'and through which the strands of the flexible member are sldably disposed, and separate springs sleeved upon the strands ofthe flexible member and interposed between the separating member K and the bottom of the pocket.

2. A device ofthe character described comprising, in combination, a pocket, a flexible element returned on itself presenting two strands movable through the bottom of the pocket, 'a separating member within the pocket and through which the strands of the flexible member are slidably disposed, separate springs sleeved upon the si gnature.

ROBERT EMIL UHL. 

